The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-26
GOOD COUNSEL.
The Glass of Women Who Raise Men to q
Higher and NObIer Position.

The Glass of Women Who Raise Men to q
Higher and NObIer Position.
My brother, it is said, and I believe
it to be in many cases true, that men do
not read women readily: do not under
stand their real characters even though
those characters may be seen by other
women. Now, let me give you an in
fallible rule, one which you can apply
in every case and never be disappointed
in the. results. 1t is simply this: When
you come into the presence of a woman
whom you are meeting for the first
time note the impression she makes on
your mind. If she reminds you
at once of your sex and her
let her alone, for her influence will de-
Grade you. She may please your eye
by her beauty, your ear by her voice,
fatter you by her words and manner,
but she will never be true friend to
you She studies to please and expects
you to please in return. She has no
thought above the present pleasure and
no care for any thing but self. She
will never uplift you beyond your pres
honor. She must live out her organiza-
ton and by suffering be made to see
the true aim of life before she can be
to you in any respect what a woman
should be to man, guide to draw
him up, not down; friend whom he
can safely trust and honor, and, per-
chance, even love.
If, on the other hand, you meet wom-
IN whose presence brings no thought
of sex into your mind, who brings out
your best thoughts and gives you hers
in return, whose manner encourages no
ignoble deed or word, who respects her.
self, and invOluntarily calls out your
respect for her, make that woman your
friend, no matter what may be her age |
or social position, no matter if she be |
poorly dressed and plain-fe atured and
one not calculated to make show in |
tle world of fashion; she has a soul |
filled with good, and her thoughts are
the forerunners of good deeds, and she |
will prove a source of constant inspira-
tion to you that shall draw you TO !
higher planes of development and tend
to make you the man you ought to be.
After spending an hour with such a
you leave her feeling moro
manly, more erect morally and physic-
ally, and, though you may not have
the thought clearly formed in your
mind, yet you are conscious that the
lime spent in her company was spent
wisely. You are aware that her influ-
ence is elevating and refining and you
EEL your better nature rousing into &C
ion. You feel ashamed of your mis-
leeds and wish yourself better than you
ire, and resolve to make yourself more
worthy of her regard. Evils that you
nave scarce noticed before you are
hardly willing to tolerate, new
lesires awake. and you breathe for
ime new, purer atmosphere.
When you find woman who pro-
luces these or similar impressions on
-Ou, cultivate her acquaintance; she
will do you good. Her influence will
De ennobling, not degrading. She will
lever drag a man down, but raise him
o a higher level, and bring out in
trong relief, all the grand nobility of
manhood that is in him, and the
trength and purity of his highest and
,est gifts,
The friendship and love of woman
f this class is worth winning, my
rother, and happy is he who can call
UGH woman his friend, and doubly
lessed is he who can win her for his
fe companion. Association with her
ill be on plane far above selfish
aSSiOn and rOun1 ont the life into.
completeness that not only
lfluences the individual, but all who
Dme in contact with him. Christian
egiSter.